A Love like Yours, like Ours, like Mine

They tell me to love myself
They don't know that loving you is easier
They tell me to love myself first and then I can love you

They don't know that loving you has opened the door to loving me
You see the pieces of myself I bury in darkness and you embrace them, embrace me, whole heartedly and I join you as we wrap our arms around me
Soothing your demons has taught me how to sooth mine

Your candor has taught me how to be myself
I can face the world knowing that you love me and now I love me too
You've taught me I can live without you
I never want to see the day I do

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Rejection Slips

I love my rejection slips. I am going to print and put them on a notice board in my room when I finally get around to making my writing corner a reality. I imagine, they'll inspire me to pour my heart out and try again, because failure is not trying. I got a rejection slip today, an email from an online magazine I really want to be published in. It hurt more than the others, it hurt because I really, really really wanted this and I poured my heart and soul into the article I submitted. It hurts, that's what I want to get across is, the " we regret to inform you that we eventually decided against publishing it as we do not think it is suitable for our platform at this time " that, that was an arrow through my heart. What does that even mean? I've poured over the magazine, I've read every article that caught my eye, I was guided by what was published. The article I submitted was a result of the feelings some one the articles evoked in me. So tell me, ...

The Scars That Always Surface

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What I'd tell her, if she'd let me

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